Re: Airport Link to Bring Changes.

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

Olympic Park also attracts station usage fee as there are no "Off peak
return" tickets there. (The tickets say Off peak but the fare is not!)
"Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> Lourie Smit wrote in message ...
> >This Tuesday's St George Leader contains an article on the opening of the
> >Airport Link on May 20.
> >The biggest changes, according to the article. will be on the East Hills
> >lines where some trains will do the airport loop while others will travel
> >the existing route into the city.
> >It is also reported that new stopping patterns for the Illawarra line
will
> >also be introduced for trains to stop at the new Wolli Creek station but
> >such patterns have not yet been published.
> >The article includes a table which shows, adult single, return and weekly
> >passes from Hurstville, Sutherland, Engadine, Cronulla, Bexley North and
> >Riverwood to the four new stations on the airport link.
> >It is reported that the $1 pensioner ticket  will not be valid on the
> >airport link.
> >
> >Comment: I hope pensioners from East Hills can still travel to the city
via
> >the airport link and that the restriction only applies to travel to the
> >airport stations.
>
> As opposed to pensioners from elsewhere?
>
> Seriously though, the additional fare to be charged is a station usage
> charge, not a line usage charge. I have *heard* (so don't anybody flame me
> if I am incorrect) that people with tickets valid *through* the new
> stations, but not *to* the new stations (such as Travelpasses, Pensioner
> Excursions, etc) will be able to buy station surcharge tickets at the
> stations, on production of their rail tickets.
>
> Dave
>
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